Mysterious Penultimate Urbex Must See New York's JN Adams
Before this hidden Buffalo NY wonder disappears or is destroyed. One of the most exciting things about moving from the West Coast out East was the opportunity to UrbEX urban explore and there is nowhere more epic where I have seen than JN Adams which is way far out on the outskirts of Buffalo New York and was once a Tuberculosis Hospital because it's situated on hill in a remote landscape in a small town named Perrysville and even though there are trespassing signs one weighs the risk reward, and look at these pictures of the stained glass windows and original chandeliers like a version of the Titanic above ground how can one resist? It's got many out buildings to explore and rumors of ghosts, but I found it magical and thrilling and a once in a lifetime adventure which I will never forget.
Shannon Falk
4/23/20205 min read
An hour outside of Buffalo New York stands one of the grandest examples of urban decay in the entire Nation, and with a nation in shutdown in April 2020? What better to remind myself that this was not the first tie our nation had faced epidemics and pandemics.
Seems bizarre but these days? J.N. Adams is fenced, and not to keep the inmates (or shall we call them "inpatients") on the inside, but contrary to what some YouTubers might compare to a haunted psychiatric asylum such is not the case with J.N. Adams. The hospital in in fact passed (ironically) March 25, 1909 by the New York legislature for the treatment of Tuberculosis. Given what happened to our nation 120 years later? Given a couple of infectious diseases that both started with cough, fever, shortness of breath, fatigue and loss of appetite? Well it was a century past the devastation of Tuberculosis, and I'm pretty sure that one of the safest places I could explore during a "shutdown" was the very same kind of place that had last seen similar circumstances.
In a time when we were all isolated and alone? What a safer time to escape in New York and take a walking history lesson?
If you thought the pandemic was an isolating experience? Maybe you needed to change your perspective. Maybe you still do?
As you explore various parts of the buildings realize that with time the building like the state of New York changed its focus, especially having purchased 283+ acres for the cure of Tuberculosis, which like so many pandemics ebbs and flows, and the question to do (at least for a number of American institutes) is what do you use the facility for after the pandemic has passed? Though I have found little "official" documentation on the hospital about the only thing concrete are the rumors. Rumors of psychiatric experiments and suicides and hauntings, but maybe that's what I wasn't looking for on my several visits that's not what I found. Though I will admit the place does have a spooky and heavy vibe.
What looks to be an abandoned classroom
The "ultimate" Quite Room. During a pandemic? Umm hell Yess!!!
Even 5 years after the tragic passing of New York Native Emo/trap rap/name your genre/the list goes on, and so does his memory in the most random of places. Rest in Power Lil Peep!
This is our history. The history of America and distinctly New York. It's not meant to be treated like a prisoner on Rikers. It's meant to be part of the State's ugly and inconvenient past, and not "passed" over. Ask Bryan Stevenson in Montgomery Alabama who took a plot of land and made founded the ji (Equal Justice Institute) and used a monument to lynching as a "teachable moment" to face uncomfortable truths. Maybe New York can take a play from Bryan Stevenson and use something authentically New York to teach our youth some history instead of turning a piece of history into a piece of graffiti? Just a thought from the Urbex'r who doesn't bring paint, just my photography, a little dog as a companion and shoot lots of pics.
I don't know much about how I was born, but "Ready" to get away from "those" people who birthed me? Um who wants a sadistic narcissi for a father and his borderline sidekick? So yeah. Avoiding "those" living people for people who aren't fake as fuck? Umm Hell Yess!!
Once you venture outside of your comfort zone and begin Urbexing? You'll find you're really not alone, and so when you meet the fellow traveler who has the exact same "crazy" idea as you? Introduce yourself. You might learn something. Maybe a couple of things?
When I Urbex? I like to think of all people? Nims Purja and no I'm not setting about to change the world through climbing the world's 14 highest peaks in 7 years (btw he did it In 6 months 6 days when the last person took 14 years. but rather I think of a quote from the documentary often "even when you think you are fucked? You're only about 40% fucked. Those are words to live by when looking for Urbex entryways and it's good life advice. Particularly for me. Wit C-PTSD? One can feel flight and fight constantly kicking in, and there's an urge (from lived experience of being a survivor who literally has faced life and death) to see a sketch situation in the same terms, and so if you're a traveler. Particularly a "solo" traveler. The only time you're really fucked? if you call your family LOL. Other than that precaution? You're probably just fine climbing into a "spooky" old building. You certainly won't find your live freak "white privilege" family seated in a Sanitarium. They have other "institutions" for those types who like to break laws and think that they are above the law, but as with all things travel and escaping the abuse? Stay gone! Your gut told you the right thing when it to told you to run. Follow your gut and don't be deceived by what looks good on the "outside". I can tell you "my family of origin"? Those people who colluded with an ex husband to abuse my daughter and son? Well I live in New York. If they can take down the leader and hierarchy of NXVIM? Maybe they can work on the cult of the Wllitts and Falk?
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"Break on Through to the Other Side". Great advice in Music, thought, travel and life :)
